Yum-O

A couple of days ago Lexee was practically begging for cinnamon rolls.  She was thinking, of course, of those kind that you pop out of the little cardboard can, peel apart, and bake.  Then you sparsely cover them with that white stuff from the tiny little plastic cup (also included in that cardboard can) that melts over the top.  Fast, cheap, and easy.  

I, on the other hand, started craving the homemade bread-y kind, covered with lots of yummy cream cheese/butter/sugar icing.  So yesterday I broke down.  I mixed the bread, rolled the dough, slathered it with butter, cinnamon and sugar, formed the roll, cut it using my nifty thread trick (Mauri and Shilo were impressed, and wanted to try too), placed the rolls in the pans, let them rise, baked them, and made the icing, with which I topped them off hot from the oven.  The house smelled awesome (it's worth it just for that).

My family quickly ate through one pan.  We gave one pan away.  Lex had two of those big cinnamon rolls for breakfast.  We are down to one pan... just right for a great Friday after-school snack.  Especially when it is a last-day-of-seminary Friday (really, I shouldn't be so happy).

I am a messy cook/baker/salad maker.  (I'll admit it... I am only human after all.)  I am a mess in the kitchen no matter what I'm doing (except for maybe cleaning).  And, true to form, I left that mess to clean up today.  I'm halfway done... just took a little blog break.  And that loaf of bread made from the leftover dough?  Ugliest loaf of bread ever.  
I bet it will taste good.